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77 points martianE | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source

I've been a long-time Cloudflare user, but sometimes I just want a global load balancer without the lock-in and with full configuration control (e.g., some Cloudflare rules require an enterprise plan).

I love Caddy for its easy configuration, and that's why I created Novnaode. It makes it easy to launch hosted Caddy instances (with Nginx coming soon) and puts you fully in control of how to manage the configurations.

No more being restricted by enterprise tiers or limited configuration options - just simple, powerful, and flexible global load balancing.

Check it out here: https://novanode.sh

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mlhpdx ◴[] No.43571856[source]
Disclosure: I'm building https://proxylity.com, but I'm seeking to understand here, not to promote it.

The fixed cost per region seems like a barrier to experimenters and large development teams alike. It's not much in the grand scheme, but enough to prohibit an individual from standing something up on a whim and leaving it around. Likewise, for large development teams having a stack for every developer would be costly. In each case I'm not talking about "production" workload, but the semi-idle stacks that run for long periods, are critical, need to reflect the production setup, and don't generate revenue.

Your LBs are quick to deploy, which is super important for fluid CI/CD experience but they miss the mark without being usage based.

Do others see this the same way?

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1. martianE ◴[] No.43571973[source]
Yeah, honestly we didn't want to go with the IaaS/cloudflare style pricing model, we give you full fly.io nodes and control of them and forward the cost. Keeps things simple and without the tricks. I can see what you're saying though